On the beat in Baghdad

Anne Garrels reports from the Middle East's hottest spot Anne Garrels is barely two days away from flying back to Baghdad when BookPage reaches her at her home in Connecticut. To compound her last-minute flurry, she's just had to have one of the family dogs put to sleep. This makes her 15 minutes late for our interview and profoundly apologetic. "We had an old boy who just didn't make it," she...